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A
coalition of 37 major health, child welfare, church and community
organisations* has urged all states and territories to follow suit and
set early deadlines for putting tobacco totally out of sight in all
retail outlets. The
Quit Victoria study of display impact on would-be quitters will be
published online next week in Addiction journal. The study of
almost 3,000 smokers and recent quitters showed a third were
influenced to buy by seeing rows of cigarettes prominently displayed
in shops. The
study findings were announced as Tasmania’s upper house voted last
night (November 21) for a three-year deadline under the Public Health
Amendment Bill 2007, all tobacco retail display to end by 2 February
2011. Said
Anne Jones, CEO of ASH Australia and spokesperson for the Protecting
Children from Tobacco coalition:
“The case for out-of-sight tobacco is overwhelming – major
studies showing children are predisposed to smoking by seeing
shopfront displays, and now this latest study showing quitters are
also lured into ‘impulse buying’ by the inescapable rows of
tobacco. “All
states and territories should pass legislation as soon as possible to
ban tobacco promotion at all points of sale – including wall and
counter-top product displays. “Children
should not be exposed to tobacco promotion. Cigarettes should not be
displayed like lollies or football cards. “With
Tasmania leading the way to ending these displays, there’s no excuse
for further delay.” Tasmania
will also ban smoking in cars carrying children, and the sale of
fruit- and confectionery-flavoured cigarettes, by 1 January 2008.
Tasmania becomes the second state to make child-carrying cars
smokefree, after South Australia from May 31 this year.
*
See Protecting Children
from Tobacco campaign at www.ashaust.org.au/lv3/action_POS.htm Aims
and endorsing organisations at www.ashaust.org.au/lv4/ProtectChildrenEndorsements.htm
Comment: Anne Jones, CEO, ASH Australia m. 0417-227-879 Media
info: Stafford
Sanders, ASH Australia
ph. (02) 9334-1823; m.
0412-070-194
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